Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither has President Conant completely forgotten the internal, costless readjustments. We have had a reduction in hour examinations, attendance taking, a relaxation of requirements of distribution, suggestions of future reform of the A.B. and B.S. degrees, and of the coming of a more rounded degree for prospective teachers. Our President has proved himself a great one on very hand...
...suggest that, as an obvious first move, the Tutorial System be overhauled. The cost of our suggested reform would be zero, the return, from the point of view of the general undergraduate body, a hundred times as great as all the University Professorships and National Scholarships in the world...
Herald figures also showed that the South, leading the mortality rate for automobile deaths with 20 or more per 10,000 cars headed the vote for safety measures. In general the Northeast, last in fatalities, stood last in reform support...
Student opinion at Harvard and seven other northeastern colleges follows the trend at large for their district in support of measures for automobile traffic reform...
...Democratic National Committee, in 1876 led the fight to establish Samuel J. Tilden's claim to the Presidency. Abram Hewitt's career reached its climax in 1886 when, in a rousing personal victory, he beat Candidates Henry George and Theodore Roosevelt to become a great reform Mayor of New York City...